CATIA V5: Class A Surfacing

Learn Class A surfacing techniques. Discover how to create the highest quality surfaces in CATIA V5.

Introduction

• Create the highest quality surfaces in CATIA
• What you should know

1. Class A Surfacing

• What is Class A surfacing?
• Constituent components and terminology

2. Basics of Design

• Primary, secondary, and tertiary geometry
• Continuities to adjacent elements

3. CAD Tools and Options

• Options
• Common tools

4. Tools

• What are splines?
• Using Project, Intersect, and Combine
• How to parallel a curve
• Refresher on Extrude and Revolve
• What are NURBS surfaces?
• Applying blend surfaces
• Creating mesh surfaces
• Secondary operations
• Match surfaces
• How to create offsets
• Trims and splits
• Joining elements
• Distance analysis
• Visualization tools
• Extending geometry
• Converter Wizard
• Display tools
• Curve shape analysis

5. Create Geometry

• Creating the top and bottom slabs
• Creating the front and end slabs
• Extending slabs
• Corner blends frame curves
• Corner blend surfaces
• Top blends
• Initial set up of the tertiary blends
• Tertiary blend surfaces

6. Operations

• Splitting the slab surfaces
• Joining the trimmed elements
• Final fillet

7. Analysis

• Relationships to neighboring geometry
• Modifications

Conclusion

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